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We had a fantastic time on our trip on Friday. We saw so many animals and persevered so well in the hot weather. A trip to remember!

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Wow what a fantastic morning we had with the prostars football camp session. The children were split into three groups and rotated around three fantastic activities. They could see the speed of the ball they had kicked using a speed gun, had a go at the “Haaland run” obstacle course, played football darts and of course, practised their football celebrations! Well done Kingfishers you all really impressed me.

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We were lucky to be able watch some of the England v Mexico game on Monday morning to kick off our sports week which has the theme this year “World Cup”

As you can see the children were feeling very excited and patriotic, ready to celebrate sports week at St Whites!

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This week we have been enjoying STEM week. On Monday we had an exciting visit to the planetarium that was set up in our auditorium. Tuesday was Aspirations morning. We visited lots of different interesting adults who told us all about their jobs r hobbies. It was a great day. Today on Wednesday it has been DT day. We received a letter from an alien requesting we make our very best sandwiches for him to try on his visit to Earth. We taste tested different sauces, spread butter on our bread, chopped cucumber, bread and cheese and made our ultimate sandwich.

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In our outdoor learning this week we were lucky enough to plant some new trees in Forest school that will encourage the local wildlife and will grow throughout our time at st whites.

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As part of our dt we had a quick wander to the park,investigating what structures were made for and how they were joined together.

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We had the most amazing time at raglan last week. We played in all of the soft play. We met lots of lovely animals, some lambs had been born that morning and some we even saw being birthed LIVE!

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We have absolutely loved our history topic so far this term- significant people. We are asking the question “Why are Mary Anning and Sir David Attenborough significant?”

After learning about Sir David we all designed a poster discussing how important our world is and why we must take care of it. After designing them we used our oracy skills to present them with our ideas to the class. We will be taking a copy of our posters home today to share with you all.

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On Monday we mixed up with all of the classes in school to celebrate and learn about others religions, beliefs and cultures. In our classroom we made bracelets for our siblings to reflect what we had learnt about the Hindu festival Rakshan Bandham. At this festival sisters gift their brothers bracelets to keep them safe and brothers give their sisters gifts to show that they will always care for them. If we didn’t have. A sibling we made our bracelet for somebody else who is special to us. During the rest of the morning we also learnt about the Jewish game driedel, performed some drama activities telling Islamic, Buddhist, Christian and Jewish stories and wrote sentences about respect.

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We have been continuing with our computing in year 1 this term, learning to use a keyboard and a mouse. It’s quite tricky to drag and click on the touch pad but we have persevered and we’re able to create some great digital paintings of flowers.

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Happy new year and welcome back!

PE this term for year 1 is on a Monday and Friday. For reception it is on a Friday.

Instead of muddy Monday, Reception will be taking part in science lesson on a Monday afternoon this half term.

Book bags and reading records in every Tuesday,Wednesday and Friday please. Please remember to write in the record when you have read with your child and any comments too, we check them every weds and fri.

Year 1 spelling tests on Friday still this term.

As always if you have any questions, need help with any homework, or generally need a chat please do reach out on the gate or via email.

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Welcome back to school everyone and happy 2026! We have enjoyed using our new outdoor area exploration area. To link with our maths learning (subitising) we’ve been playing snakes and ladders to help us recognise the numbers on a dice at first glance. We of course have been doing some drawing and colouring as well to decorate our snakes and ladders boards. We can’t wait for all the fun ahead this spring term!

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This afternoon we had the best time at our dance workshop. We all gave it a really good go and had so much fun.

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Before Christmas we completed our science experiment where we tested out a few different materials to check if they were suitable for making an umbrella. We used our key vocabulary “waterproof” and came to the conclusion that a plastic material or a material coated in plastic would be the best one to use.

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We are all ready for our dress rehearsal this morning, we are soooo excited!

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We had such a great time over Christmas celebrating with Christmas dinner, performance and jumper day.

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We have used the instructions that we have carefully been writing to create our own versions of the bird feeder. We not only wrote the instructions in English but we have done a Geographical enquiry into where the best place on the school would be to place the bird feeders. We were very pleased with the result.

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We had the lovely opportunity to go down to the allotment today with Mrs Self. We learnt all about what is grown there as well as helping Mrs Self to clear up the beds ready for us to plant in spring!

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We had to spread butter, roll the tubes into the seed and cut and tie string!

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Thank you so much to everyone who could attend our teddy bears picnic before half term , we had the best afternoon with you all.

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We used our problem solving skills to build a sturdy bonfire, criss crossing the sticks over and having the longer ones at the bottom.

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We also enjoyed creating some beautiful poppies for our soldier display as well as our armistice day display.

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We had so much fun creating firework pictures on black paper using oil pastels. The results were lovely

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We have started to use our spooky themed provision for the week and we are all loving it! Some time to explore and play after a long half term is just what we have needed.

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We had the privilege of seeing Michael Rosen at the Cheltenham lit fest today. He was so funny and the children loved learning all of the poems that he was reciting to us. A very popular moment was his performance of “chocolate cake”. He read us his new book which we enjoyed. When back at the school we read “We’re going on a bear hunt” and discussed how amazing it had been to meet the author.

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Investigating autumn treasures

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Spider legs activity

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Potion making fun

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We practised our counting through and past 20 this week using the counting tray in the classroom.

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We practised our counting to 10 with our maths tray this week. We also had to use our fine motor skills to pinch the conkers and move them using tweezers. We had fun exploring the tray.

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After Receptions woodland walk last week as well as our art activity where we used natural resources to paint, Kingfisher class have been very interested by the natural happenings of autumn. We had a go at using our collage skills (what we have been learning about in art in year 1) with our science and fine motor skills to produce some beautiful acorn collages.

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In Year 1, we have been further developing our fine motor skills in activities such as geo boards and Lego. This all helps towards our handwriting getting even better! And we have had fun doing it too.

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This week we have developed our phonics learning by choosing some phonics related activities in our choosing time. We have explored the acorn matching game- matching the initial sound acorn “hat” to the picture that begins with that sound. We have also been practising our letter formation in our sensory tray. This week I also sent home some letter formation laminated sheets as well as name cards to continue this learning whenever possible.

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We all really enjoyed our balance-ability lesson this week. Some of us even faced our fears and rode the bike for the first time! We followed the set course that our instructor gave us and took turns to have a go.

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Well done Kingfisher class for winning our key stage attendance award on Friday. We had an attendance of 97.1% last week!

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We have loved using our senses to explore the world around us. We used natural autumn resources (acorns, pine cones, conkers, sticks and leaves) to create a beautiful autumn tree with paint. We thought carefully about the colour that we used and discussed about why trees leaves aren’t green in the Autumn. The children were so pleased with the end result of this challenging task and were so excited to take their paintings home to you.

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We have been discussing the season that we are in quite often at school this week and a lot of children have been producing some beautiful drawings to demonstrate what we have learnt. Lots of them have brought the drawings home to you and lots are on display in our classroom to help us decorate for the season.

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Reception have already started their phonics learning. They have learnt s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d already! We use continuous provision activities within the classroom to try and embed the sounds further.

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We have made a flying start to our writing in year 1! We are looking at the traditional fairy tale "Goldilocks and the three bears". We have loved choosing to enhance our learning through our play using the related resources. We can tell the story using our actions and drama skills.

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We have made some beautiful colour wheels using our new skill of collage. We are working towards creating a collage of Balmoral Castle which was built in the Victorian era- linking to our History!

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The year 1 children loved their cooking this term. They enhanced their chopping skills and learned how to use sharp tools safely. They created a beautiful, healthy apple salad which contained chopped apple, celery, rocket, sultanas and a homemade dressing. Some of us loved it, some of us weren't so sure, although we all gave it a really good try.

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Please bring in reading folders on a Wednesday and a Friday

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Please bring in reading folders on a Wednesday and a Friday

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Muddy Monday for Reception every Monday. Please bring in wellies and a change of clothes so that everyone can get involved with the fun!

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Muddy Monday for Reception every Monday. Please bring in wellies and a change of clothes so that everyone can get involved with the fun!

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Wednesday morning handwriting club for Year 1 starts at 8am every Wednesday this term. 

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Wednesday morning handwriting club for Year 1 starts at 8am every Wednesday this term. 